TH: pound gold coin sells for $4 million at auction
VIENNA -- The world's largest gold coin has been sold at auction in Austria for euro3.27 million ($4 million).
The coin -- a 2007 maple leaf coin with a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars ($960,000) that weighs 220 pounds and has a diameter of 21 inches -- went under the hammer Friday at Austria's prestigious Dorotheum auction house.
It was pocketed by Spanish precious metal trading company Oro Direct.
The Dorotheum said on its website that the impressive sum the coin fetched was largely influenced by the high price of gold.
